Google Cloud Storage Cache Action

GitHub already provides an awesome action to cache your workload to Azure's servers hosted in United States. However, if you are using self-hosted runners hosted far away from the cache location, or if you pay external network way more than internal network, you may want to host your cache elsewhere for better performance and lower costs.

This action does have the same set of inputs as the @actions/cache action from GitHub, in addition to a new bucket input which should contain your target Google Cloud Storage bucket. As simple as that.

Usage

workflow.yml

- name: Authenticate to Google Cloud
  uses: google-github-actions/auth@v0
  with:
    workload_identity_provider: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/your-identity-pool/providers/your-provider
    service_account: github-ci@your-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

- name: Cache the node_modules
  id: node-modules-cache
  uses: mansagroup/gcs-cache-action@v2
  with:
    bucket: my-ci-cache
    path: node_modules
    key: node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('package-lock.json') }}
    restore-keys: |
      node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-

- name: Install dependencies
  if: steps.node-modules-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'false'
  run: npm ci

Inputs

This GitHub action can take several inputs to configure its behaviors:

Name	Type	Default	Example	Description
bucket	String	ø	`my-ci-cache`	The name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use
path	String[]	ø	`node_modules`	One or more path to store
key	String	ø	`node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('package-lock.json') }}`	Key to use as cache name
restore-keys	String[]	ø	`node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-`	Alternative keys to use when looking for the best cache available
root-dir	String	ø	`cache`	Directory where the cache directory is to be restored
force-upload	Boolean	false	`true`	Whether to force cache upload, even if there was an exact cache hit

Note: the path and restore-keys inputs can contains multiple value separated by a new line.

Outputs

This GitHub action will output the following values:

Name	Type	Description
cache-hit	String	A boolean string representing if the cache was successfully restored

Examples

With multiple paths

workflow.yml

- name: Authenticate to Google Cloud
  uses: google-github-actions/auth@v0
  with:
    workload_identity_provider: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/your-identity-pool/providers/your-provider
    service_account: github-ci@your-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

- name: Cache the node_modules and npm cache
  id: node-modules-cache
  uses: mansagroup/gcs-cache-action@v2
  with:
    bucket: my-ci-cache
    path: |
      node_modules
      ~/.npm
    key: npm-and-node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('package-lock.json') }}
    restore-keys: |
      npm-and-node-modules-${{ runner.os }}-

Compression algorithm

When compressing or decompressing the cache archive, the action will lookup for the best compression algorithm to use. If zstd is available, it will be used instead of gzip by default. The compression method will be added to the object's metadata on the Bucket. Thanks to this, when decompressing, the correct algorithm will be used.

Installing zstd on Ubuntu is simple as doing a apt install zstd.

Note that if a cache archive was compressed using one algorithm, this same algorithm should be installed to decompress it after.

Terraform

Here is a little snippet allowing you to create your cache bucket with Terraform (which you should probably use):

resource "google_storage_bucket" "ci_cache" {
  name                        = "your-ci-cache"
  location                    = "your-location" # "EUROPE-WEST1"
  uniform_bucket_level_access = true

  lifecycle_rule {
    action {
      type = "Delete"
    }

    condition {
      age = 7
    }
  }
}

resource "google_storage_bucket_iam_member" "ci_cache_write_github_ci" {
  bucket = google_storage_bucket.ci_cache.name
  role   = "roles/storage.objectCreator"
  member = "serviceAccount:github-ci@your-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

resource "google_storage_bucket_iam_member" "ci_cache_read_github_ci" {
  bucket = google_storage_bucket.ci_cache.name
  role   = "roles/storage.objectViewer"
  member = "serviceAccount:github-ci@your-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

resource "google_storage_bucket_iam_member" "ci_cache_legacy_write_github_ci" {
  bucket = google_storage_bucket.ci_cache.name
  role   = "roles/storage.legacyBucketWriter"
  member = "serviceAccount:github-ci@your-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

Q&A

Could I use this action on multiple repositories with the same bucket?

Yes you can. When storing to the bucket, this action will use the following the following path:

[repository owner]/[repository name]/[cache key].tar.gz

License

This project is MIT licensed.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Jérémy Levilain}
💻 📖 🤔

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

ChintanAcharya/gcs-cache-action